Chapter 88 Tied
Shen San and his wife were forcibly dragged out of the goose's mouth by the villagers. Shen San was bitten in many places on his body. Once he was out of danger and had caught his breath, he knew for sure that he had escaped. He turned around and saw the goose in the bamboo fence. He picked up a thick stick on the ground and was about to hit the goose.
Zhou Cunzheng shouted and had someone grab him directly.
Seeing that he still dared to act violently, Shi Erlang thought of the ladder that fell on the wall and guessed why the couple came. He immediately said, "Zhou Cunzheng, they climbed over the wall and entered the yard in the middle of the night. They must have either stolen or hurt someone. It's definitely a sneaky thing. There's never been such a thing in our village. Shouldn't they be tied up?"
Sang Luo is a junior, so it is not easy for her to bring this up. Shi Er and Shen San have no blood relationship.
Upon hearing that they were tied up, Shen San was stunned, and the men in the village were also stunned, some of them were unable to react.
If this person was a person from another village or a stranger, it goes without saying that he would be tied up, but this was Shen San. Although the villagers thought it was outrageous that the uncle climbed over the wall of his nephew, they subconsciously regarded it as a family matter.
Mrs. Li was furious: "What's wrong with us entering our nephew's room? We haven't even entered yet, what law have we violated?"
That righteous and tough look made Sang Luo laugh.
"The family has been divided a long time ago. Your family is your family, and my family is my family. Do you have the nerve to say that you came to your nephew's house, but you didn't enter the door during the day, and you quietly climbed over the wall in the middle of the night?"
"If you want to know which law they have violated, the major laws regarding property infringement include theft, robbery, and thievery. Theft refers to stealing someone else's property in secret." Sang Luo said this and turned to Zhou Cunzheng: "May I ask, Zhou Cunzheng, do the two of them climbing over the wall in the middle of the night count as stealing in secret?"
Zhou Cunzheng was able to be a village chief, so he naturally had to memorize the laws. He looked at Sang Luo in surprise, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who could recite the corresponding laws casually...
He nodded: "That's right."
Shen San no longer cared about hitting those geese with sticks. He hurriedly defended himself: "We didn't steal anything. We haven't even climbed over the wall yet!"
Zhou Cunzheng didn't need Sang Luo to step in this time, and said calmly: "That was also an attempted theft."
He turned to the villagers who had followed him and said, "Take him down the mountain and tie him up. We will report him to the police tomorrow to deal with him."
As a village chief, he does not have such great authority.
Shen San and Li were dumbfounded, and then they exploded: "Sang, you are not a human! You are a cold-blooded, heartless thing who doesn't even recognize your elders!"
Seeing that Sang Luo's expression didn't change at all, Li cried again: "Chen An! Chen Ning! Where the hell are you! You just watched your sister-in-law order people to kidnap us?! Where's your conscience!"
A group of villagers who came to help looked at each other, not knowing whether they should say a few words to help Shen San, and no one moved for a while.
Chen Youtian and the others didn't have so many concerns. They had already climbed over the wall. Could they still go in and do good things?
They naturally stood on Sang Luo's side. Seeing that the villagers did not move, Chen Youtian, Shi Erlang, Lu Dalang and Lu Sanlang stepped forward to twist them.
Sang Luo, Zhou Cunzheng and other villagers bowed and said, "Thank you Cunzheng and other neighbors for coming to help in the middle of the night. It's not that I, Sang Luo, am unforgiving, but I am a weak woman living in this mountain with two children. If someone climbed over the wall in the middle of the night without paying, I don't know how many people would be emboldened in the future, and we would not be able to live like this."
After saying this, he bowed again.
A group of men in the village really felt that Sang Luo was a bit too tough. After all, they were uncle and aunt. No matter how bad their relationship was, wasn't it too hard-hearted to kidnap someone and send him to the head of the village to deal with it? In this day and age, if such a thing was sent to the head of the village, it would be just one step away from seeing an official. The head of the village could decide whether to report it or not.
But after hearing what Sang Luo said, I immediately understood.
Yes, after all, she was just a young lady of fifteen or sixteen, with two children of eight or nine, living in such a remote mountain. If Shen San and Li had not been bitten so badly by the geese and their screams had not been so tragic, and several families living close to the mountain had heard them and called for help, who would have known what had really happened?
Today, Chen San and Li got in without any problem, but tomorrow, who knows what kind of scoundrel will dare to go in. Just thinking about it makes me break out in a cold sweat for Sang Luo.
They all felt ashamed for their cold-blooded thoughts about Sang and waved their hands. The one who could speak said, "We are all neighbors. We should help each other. The village really cannot have such a culture. Don't be polite, wife Alie. It's cold in the mountains at night. Let's go back. We'll take the people down and talk tomorrow if there's anything."
Zhou Cunzheng waited for the villagers to express their opinions before saying, "Go in and rest. The two children must have been frightened. Comfort them. Tomorrow morning I will ask someone to invite the head of the village to come over. I will give you an explanation on this matter."
Sang Luo thanked them and walked them a few steps away, watching Chen San and Li being taken away by the men in the village while cursing. After they had walked far away, she smiled and turned back to look at the three geese outside the yard.
Although the three big geese did not recognize Sang Luo as their master, they had just experienced a fierce battle and were in high spirits. They stretched their necks and held their heads high, looking very powerful.
Sang Luo was delighted and praised: "You did a great job. I'll give you extra food tomorrow!"
The three big geese held their heads high and responded with “geese, geese!”
Sang Luo checked that there was nothing wrong with the geese and the bamboo fence, then she turned back to the yard and bolted the door.
Chen An and Shen Ning had gotten up a long time ago, but Sang Luo had not let the two children go out before. Now that they heard that it was quiet outside, they were waiting for Sang Luo in the yard.
The three of them returned to the house together. Shen Ning's face was not affected by Li's scolding at all. Instead, he was full of joy: "Is the big goose so powerful?"
Give her some vent!
Sang Luo smiled and said, "Yes, you should feed them better in the future. Once they are familiar with us and recognize us, you can let them out. We will rely on them to guard the house in the future."
Now all the doors are locked. The kitchen is large, so you can't see anything sensitive just by standing by the window. Children can come to play in the front yard.
Shen Ning nodded excitedly: “Well, I will definitely take good care of it!”
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At the foot of the mountain, Shen San and Li were tied up and pushed into a dilapidated house in the village and locked up.
Well, Shili Village is not a big family, so there is no such thing as an ancestral hall. During meetings, people have to stand in the sun drying yard, so there is really no ancestral hall to lock up the couple. Of course, they can only lock them up in an old, dilapidated house where no one has left.
When the men who came out to help returned home, it went without saying that each family talked about this matter.
Zhou Cunzheng returned home, and his wife and two daughters-in-law also came out with their clothes on to ask what happened.
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang naturally went to talk to the two daughters-in-law. Zhou Cunzheng returned to his room and said to his wife, "I'm afraid Chen San and Li have set their eyes on Sang's tofu recipe."
He described the incident on the mountain in detail, and said, "Fortunately, this Sang family is also very capable. I don't know if they noticed it early, and quietly got a few big geese and released them outside the yard. Shen San and Li suffered a great loss today, and their clothes are bleeding."
Zhou Cunzheng's wife curled her lips: "That's what she deserves!"
Money is indeed attractive, but this couple is really nothing.
Then he asked, "What should we do now? We can't just let it go like this, can we? A goose biting it is nothing. If we really let it go like this, then Sang Shi will not have a peaceful life in the mountains in the future."
Zhou Cunzheng just laughed, "No, don't worry, the three families of Chen, Shi and Lu are all helping us, so we won't lose anything. Besides, Sang is also very powerful. When she is tough, she can recite the relevant laws of Dagan Law word for word, and when she is soft, she can be humble and submissive. Those who originally thought she was tough and cold now think she is not easy anymore."
"Chen San and Li are now tied up. We will ask the head of the village to come over tomorrow. We have to give these people in the village a shock."
Some people have been feeling uneasy recently. Now everyone still has food and drink, and most families are not in difficult circumstances. But it will be hard to say after the New Year. If things like this are not dealt with properly, and if we encounter worse situations in the future, there will be no peace in the village.
But it’s hard to say about Shen San’s case. The theft attempt failed and he couldn’t even climb over the wall. In fact, this is a matter with a lot of room for maneuver.
If you offend a powerful family, they will send you to do hard labor for three years without any hesitation. If the victim is a commoner, there are many cases where you will be easily dismissed.
It all depends on the attitude of the village head and the attitude and ability of Mrs. Sang.
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The next morning, before it was time for everyone to have breakfast, the sound of gongs suddenly rang out in the village.
When the villagers heard the familiar three gong sounds coming from the drying yard, their scalps tightened. This was a subconscious reaction. After all, in the past two years or so, nothing good had ever happened whenever the gongs sounded at the drying yard.
But when he thought about the incident that Shen San and his wife had caused yesterday, he felt relieved again. It should be about dealing with the case of Shen San and his wife climbing over the wall to steal. Didn’t Zhou Cunzheng say it yesterday? He would invite the head of the village to come over today.
Sang Luo also heard some noise on the mountain and thought the same thing. She locked the door and took Shen An and Shen Ning down the mountain.
The brothers Shen Jin and Shen Yin of the Shen family slept soundly last night and did not hear any noise on the mountain. They did not know that their parents had done something big last night and had been kidnapped.
The brothers didn't see their parents early in the morning and thought they had gone to the fields or did something else.
At this moment, they heard the gong sounding in the drying yard, so they pulled Tian Ya, who was still walking unsteadily, to join in the fun.
Along the way, people pointed and talked. Shen Jin was feeling strange when someone laughed and said, "Xiao Jin, don't you know what your parents did? They climbed over the wall of your eldest cousin's wife's house to steal last night and were tied up. Now they are locked up in a deserted house in the north of the village. Didn't you brothers go to check on them?"
Shen Jin and Shen Yin: ???
What are you talking about???
We turned and headed north of the village. The man laughed again, "No need to run. Didn't you hear the gong? They might be brought to the drying yard soon."
Shen Jin didn't want to hear all this. He handed Tian Yaer to Chen Tie and ran to the north of the village with Shen Yin.
Everybody was talking about the excitement as they headed over to the drying yard. Men and women, young and old, were all ready to go and have some fun. Naturally, there was a lot of buzzing and talking.
Some people, after listening to Sang Luo's words last night, felt that it was understandable that Sang Luo was a bit tough. Naturally, there were also people who felt that Sang Luo was too powerful and too cold-blooded. The same thing was that they did not think that the sound of the gongs in the village had anything to do with them and just regarded it as a lively event.
Only the Zhou family members looked solemn, because they knew very well that their father had just asked the third son to invite people, and the third son had just set out, so how could the head of the village and the head of the village arrive so soon?
Therefore, the sound of the gong had nothing to do with the Shen family.
Zhou Dalang looked at his father and said, "Dad, there won't be any more taxes, will there?"
The Zhou family often went to the county town a while ago and heard some rumors about the outside world. Now taxes are being increased significantly everywhere.
Zhou Cunzheng shook his head: "It shouldn't be a tax increase. If it is increased again, everyone will have to eat grass next spring."
Zhou Erlang, who was standing by, clenched his hands and said, "The busy farming season has just passed, so you're not going to collect corvée labor, are you?"
But they have already served three times this year, and the total number of days served has reached more than 80 days. They can't do it for the fourth time, right?
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